Milk-bottle holder



May 14, 1929. v ALLEN 1,713,415 7 MILK BOTTLE HOLDER Filed April 25, 1928 Patented May 14, 1929.

UNITED STATESv FREDERICK r. ALLEN, or SEATTLE, wasnmcvroiv.

MILK-BOTTLE HOLDER.

Application filed April 25, 1928. Serial No, 272,845.

The object of this invention is the provision of a simple means, designed to be fixed in a support for removably sustaining thereon a milk bottle or the like.

A further object is the provision of a milk bottle holder that includes a bracket-like portion designed to be fixed on a support and which has at one of its side a semi-circular extension providing one element of a jaw, said jaw at its outer end being formed with a finger extension, the bracket having pivotally secured thereto asecond semi-circular jaw which is spring influenced toward the first mentioned jaw and which has its outer end formed with an apertured lip extension to receive the hooked end of the first mentioned jaw member therein for holding the aws latched to prevent the free swinging of the pivoted jaw section away from the fixed ]a w section, the lip also forming a finger grip whereby the said pivoted jaw section may be readily swung away from the fixed jaw section to arrange between or to remove from the jaws a milk bottle or the like.

To the attainment of the foregoing the improvement further resides in certain other novel features of construction, combination and operative association of parts, one satisfactory embodiment of which is disclosed by the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a sectional view approximately on the line 11 of Figure 3.

Figure 2 is a sectional view approximately on the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the improvement, the support being in section and the dotted lines indicating the swingable jaw moved away from the stationary jaw.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a suitable vertical support, such as the side of a house, the post for a porch or the like. Arranged against the support 1 is my improvement. The improvement contemplates the employment of a base which I will term a bracket and which is broadly indicated by the numeral 2. The bracket has ear extensions 3 through which pass securing elements 4 that attach my improvement to the support. The bracket includes outstanding top and bottom plates and a side plate which may be removably connected to the top and bottom plates. The side plate is formed with a semicircular extension 5 that provides one of the jaw sections. The outer end of the jaw section 5 is offset outwardly and from thence extended-angularly to provide the same with a tongue 6.

Pivoted in the housing of the bracket 2, as at 7, there are ears 8 formed upon the edges at the inner end of a second semi-circular jaw section 9. A spring 10 surrounds the pivot 7,

being received between the ears 8, the said spring having angularly extending arms 11 and 12 which contact respectively with the jaw section 9 and with the inner wall of the housing portion of the bracket 2. The outer end of the swingable jaw section 9 is formed with an extension in the nature of a lip 13 and this lip is provided with an o ening 14 for the reception of the tongue 6 0 the fixed jaw 5 therethrough. The lip 13 extends a. suitable distance beyond the tongue 6 so that the outer end of the lip affords a finger grip whereby the jaw 9 may be readily swung away from the jaw 5.

Obviously a pressure upon the bottle 15 which is received between the jaws will likewise cause the jaw 9 to be swung awa from the jaw 5. The tongue 6 also prefera ly has its edges slightly rounded toward its outer end, so that the reduced end of the tongue will freely pass through the opening 14 but the widened portion of the tongue may be brought into frictional contact with the opposite or upper and lower walls provided by the said opening 14.

My improvement is of an extremely simple nature and may be readily attached to any suitable support and will effectively grip the milk bottle 15 between the jaws thereof. Also the improvement permits of the ready swinging of the spring influenced jaw 9 away from the stationary or fixed jaw 5 so that the bottle may be readily inserted therein or removed from the jaws.

The improvement is designed to support milk bottles in places beyond the reach of cats or dogs and thereby prevent such animals licking the tops of the bottles, so that the improvement may be considered of a sanitary nature as the same will prevent the spreading of diseases which often occurs when the bottles are arranged within the reach of animals and insects.

Having described the invention, I claim:

In a milk bottle support, a bracket designed to be horizontally arranged and fixed on a vertical support, said bracket providing a housing, whose outer and one of its end walls are open and whose closed end wall is extended and rounded to provide a substantiaily semicircular jaw section, said jaw sechaving its free end formed with a lip extention having its outer end formed with a sion provided with an opening to receive the 1 straight extension which merges into an anlipof the fixed jaw therethrough, for the purgularly disposed lip, a second semi-oy1indripose set forth.

cal jaw having ears on one of its ends received In testimony whereof I afiix my signain the housing of the bracket and pivoted ture.

thereto, spring means influencing the pivoted jaw toward the fixed jaw, said pivoted jaw FREDERICK F. ALLEN. 

